What happens when a CAPTCHA fails?

So I was enjoying the double-ticket day at Live Search Club when I ran into a brick wall, so to speak. (To help curb cheating or bots with their games, Live Search Club prompts you with a CAPTCHA after every 4th game – which probably doesn’t help in the end.) The following CAPTCHA caused me to initially chuckle to myself thinking that it was just a random chance that the letters looked like “error”…

Trust me - the way they mutilate the letters, any one of the R's could be T, F or 1...

Except, that it failed to register my response and displayed the same letters in a different way:

...And the E could actually be a C, and the O a zero...

So I decided to record it and produced this video:

This is available in HD, which isn’t really completely true as the window size was around 660 pixels wide – and so it was scaled up to 720p dimensions. Still, it looks much better then the normal quality…

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This is the semi-personal* tech blog of Nathan Hamersley, a left-handed geek on a mission.

I live in northeast Ohio, just outside of the Akron/Canton region. I love to discuss technology and share my passion for Microsoft (you could call me a fanboy) and technology.

I am a firm believer of the power and potential of mobile devices like Tablet PC and Origami/UMPC. I've grown more fond of the idea of Netbooks ruling the world, and I eagerly await Windows 7 to bring new (and proper) life to that category of machine. I claim to actually know how to use a computer, and since I grew up using computers and I've been programming since I was 9, I'd say that consuming grains of salt with those claims need not be required.

I specifically enjoy drinking a healthy amount of coffee every day, I admire aviation and would love to get my private pilot's license some day, I use dot-dot-dots way too often (...) and I would use the (‽) interrobang symbol if it were practical. I've been studying the Korean language since early 2004 and thus pretend to actually know what I'm reading or hearing when exposed to that language, I'm a Christian, I have conservative views (less is more, you know), and I sometimes stare mindlessly at objects - in all honesty: who doesn't?

I'm sure there's plenty more weirdness to be told... and I'm sure I've made a spelling mistake or two in the paragraphs above.

* I say semi-personal because I don't fully blog my mind - I stick to the tech stuff here. Eventually I'll get my own domain and hosting and I'll speak more freely there.

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